How about a preview option that works?

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#1 Shifty_Pete
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I just spent a while posting a journal entry with pictures. I formatted it so that the text wrapped around the pictures as in a magazine or newspaper, previewing each change until I had it just right. Then I posted it, and it completely changed. I realized that the problem is that the Preview takes the whole width of the GS site's content column, while the final version makes room on the right for sidebars. If the preview doesn't actually show you what you're going to get, how is it a preview? I'd like to see a preview that shows me how the post will look when submitted, since you know... that's kind of the point of it.
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#2 Shifty_Pete
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Nobody wants a functional Preview?
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#3 icytower
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I'm sure it has to do with the new editor that GS has given us, but I agree and hope that the preview for blog posts will return to what it used to be before the new editor was released.
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it used to work, havent tried for a while. does it not work anymore? 
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#5 Shifty_Pete
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it used to work, havent tried for a while. does it not work anymore? leezeebub
Well, it depends what you call working. If you want it to show you something it works fine. If you want it to show you what it will look like when you hit the Submit button, though, you're out of luck.
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#6 icytower
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it used to work, havent tried for a while. does it not work anymore? leezeebub

When you make a blog post you basically get the screen you would when you create a new topic. It does not cover only half the screen like it used to.

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#7 Shifty_Pete
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I found this thread that is pretty much asking for the same thing--a working preview in journals: 

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25537501